Range Rover Ice Cream racer

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Austin Shackles

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• Feb 26, 2006

• #1

Anyone else see the scrap heap race thing?

The rangie ice-cream van looks good.

Mind, the dibbles with their monster pickup should have been OK, but I
suspect they used a different propshaft, or didn't secure it properly.
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If all be true that I do think, There are five reasons we should drink;
Good wine, a friend, or being dry, Or lest we should be by and by;
Or any other reason why. - Henry Aldrich (1647 - 1710)

 

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Dave Liquorice

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• Feb 26, 2006

• #2

On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 20:09:47 +0000, Austin Shackles wrote:

> Anyone else see the scrap heap race thing?

Yes, the first time round, it's a repeat. Still good though.

> The rangie ice-cream van looks good.

I won't spoil the rest of the series by telling you who...

> Mind, the dibbles with their monster pickup should have been OK, but I
> suspect they used a different propshaft, or didn't secure it properly.

The twits took the engine but not (all) the transmission from the US
pickup. No wonder the ordinary UK propshaft gave up the ghost...

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Geoff

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• Feb 27, 2006

• #3

On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 20:20:10 +0000 (GMT), "Dave Liquorice" <[email protected]>
wrote:

->The twits took the engine but not (all) the transmission from the US
->pickup. No wonder the ordinary UK propshaft gave up the ghost...

It was not the prop, they used the wrong bolts to secure it to the diff.



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Geoff
www.anoraks.uk.net

 

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Marc Draper

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• Feb 27, 2006

• #4

>Mind, the dibbles with their monster pickup should have been OK, but I
>suspect they used a different propshaft, or didn't secure it properly.


With out wishing to spoil it they do come up with some strange ideas at
the end
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Marc
www.anoraks4x4.com/ScrapheapPt1.htm

 

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Austin Shackles

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• Feb 27, 2006

• #5

On or around Sun, 26 Feb 2006 20:20:10 +0000 (GMT), "Dave Liquorice"
<[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:

>On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 20:09:47 +0000, Austin Shackles wrote:
>
>> Anyone else see the scrap heap race thing?
>
>Yes, the first time round, it's a repeat. Still good though.
>
>> The rangie ice-cream van looks good.
>
>I won't spoil the rest of the series by telling you who...
>
>> Mind, the dibbles with their monster pickup should have been OK, but I
>> suspect they used a different propshaft, or didn't secure it properly.
>
>The twits took the engine but not (all) the transmission from the US
>pickup. No wonder the ordinary UK propshaft gave up the ghost...

yeah, they had the axle. They implied that they'd used all the
transmission, but obviously they didn't think the propshaft counted.
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Austin Shackles. www.ddol-las.net my opinions are just that
"Nessun maggior dolore che ricordarsi del tempo felice nella miseria"
- Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321) from Divina Commedia 'Inferno'

 

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Dave Liquorice

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• Mar 1, 2006

• #6

On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 09:12:25 +0000, Geoff wrote:

>> The twits took the engine but not (all) the transmission from the US
>> pickup. No wonder the ordinary UK propshaft gave up the ghost...
>
> It was not the prop, they used the wrong bolts to secure it to the
> diff.

I've just had a look again. They did take the axle, engine and gearbox,
no mention of the prop shaft, but the words say the whole lot front to
back.

Agreed the failure was the interface between the prop universal joint
flange and diff flange. Looking at the close up, if they were bolts and
not weld in the holes, they must have been mild steel ones. The silver
blobs don't look remotely like bolts or the remains of.

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Cheers [email protected]
Dave. pam is missing e-mail

 

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Geoff

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• Mar 2, 2006

• #7

On Wed, 01 Mar 2006 13:43:17 +0000 (GMT), "Dave Liquorice" <[email protected]>
wrote:

->On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 09:12:25 +0000, Geoff wrote:
->
->Agreed the failure was the interface between the prop universal joint
->flange and diff flange. Looking at the close up, if they were bolts and
->not weld in the holes, they must have been mild steel ones. The silver
->blobs don't look remotely like bolts or the remains of.

The bolts the used were indeed made of cheese, rather then mess about on test
day the prop was just welded to the diff.

On Scrapheap you never bolt anything, it will never have to come apart so you
weld it, likewise you never undo anything you cut it.




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Geoff
www.anoraks.uk.net